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Editorial
. 2023 Sep 1:14:1281632.
doi: 10.3389/fphys.2023.1281632. eCollection 2023.

Editorial: Environmental impacts in domestic birds: towards homeostasis, efficiency and well-being

Shawna Weimer  1   2 , Gregory S Fraley  3 , Sara Orlowski  2 , Darrin Karcher  3 , Gregory Archer  4 , Krystyna Pierzchała-Koziec  5 , Colin G Scanes  6
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Editorial: Environmental impacts in domestic birds: towards homeostasis, efficiency and well-being

Shawna Weimer et al. Front Physiol. .
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Keywords: chicken; homeostasis; stress; welfare; well-being.

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The authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest. The authors declared that they were an editorial board member of Frontiers, at the time of submission. This had no impact on the peer review process and the final decision.

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Corticotropin releasing hormone (CRH) family members in chickens: 1—CRH 1 (Vandenborne et al., 2005), 2—CRH 2 (Genbank accession KU887752), 3—urocortin (Genbank accession XM_046939396), 4—urocortin 3 (Grommen et al., 2017). Blue indicates structure of CRH 1 or identical amino acids in other peptides. Red indicates differences to CRH 1.
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